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American Culture and the Engineering Concept

In three pages this research paper discusses how the engineering concept has evolved from the Industrial Revolution to a contempor...

Modern Americans' and Native Americans' Rites of Passage

In seven pages this paper compares the contemporary American teenager with Tukuna, Okrika, and Okiek Native American counterparts ...

The Common Thread of Ancient and Modern African Music

In comparison, Ethiopias krar music is played on a stringed instrument and carries overtones that are almost (but not quite) remin...

Family Systems of China

In seven pages traditional and contemporary Chinese families are compared in terms of marriage customs, power according to gender,...

Financial Crises and Panic

virtually all Americans are well-aware of the resultant mass hysteria of the 1929 crash on Wall Street, there has not been signifi...

IMF History

In twenty nine pages the International Monetary Fund is considered from its 1944 origins to its contemporary structure and practic...

In a Different Place by Jill Dubisch and Greek Island Culture

In six pages Dr. Dubisch's text regarding a contemporary Greek Island pilgrimage to Tinos is discussed. Two sources are cited in ...

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Emile Durkheim

In five pages this text is considered with the emphasis being on religious practices being studied by sociologists as a way to und...

The Life and Works of Aldous Huxley

In a paper consisting of nine pages the amazing life of this social revolutionary particularly as it relates to drug experimentati...

Egyptian Pharaoh Ptolemy I Soter

In eight pages this research report examines Ptolemy I in a consideration of his achievements and how the contemporary university ...

Analysis of Race Matters by Cornel West

In eleven pages this 1993 text is examined in terms of individual chapters that deal with Malcolm X's black society influence mobi...

African American Artistic and Musical Contributions

In five pages this research paper assesses the artistic and musical contributions of African Americans throughout history in the m...

Uses and Discipline of Tae Kwon Do

In two pages this essay examines the discipline of the Korean martial art Tae Kwon Do and considers its contemporary social uses. ...

Zen Buddhism Philosophy, Suzuki Roshi, and Immanuel Kant

In six pages this paper examines the philosophical similarities and differences between Suzuki Roshi's and Immanuel Kant's theorie...

Materialism Does Not Motivate Spectacular Church Buildings

In seven pages this paper argues that magnificent contemporary church buildings are not representative of the materialist Christia...

NJ Earthquakes

In five pages New Jersey is examined in terms of its geographical characteristics and its potential for earthquake activity with c...

NY and Earthquakes

In seven pages New York is geologically examined in terms of regional fault lines and the potential for a major earthquake occurre...

Overview of Environmental Sciences

In nine pages environmental sciences are considered in this overview of history and contemporary concerns. Seven sources are cite...

Evolution, Dinosaurs, and Birds

in the mountains of China, at the margin of the Andes Mountains in Argentina, and in the sweltering jungles of Laos and Thailand (...

Corpuscular Light Theory of Sir Isaac Newton

In five pages this research paper considers the corpuscular light theory developed by Newton and how this formed the foundation fo...

Adolescent Suicide and Romeo and Juliet

This research paper analyzes Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and compares its narratives to instances of adolescent suicide and fam...

A Film Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet

This research paper/essay offers a critique of Baz Luhmann's adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The writer discusses ho...

Nihilism in Baz Luhrmann's Updated Film Interpretation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Shakespeare's original tragedy with the contemporary interpretation Baz Luhrmann b...

Poverty and the Social Theories of Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Karl Marx

In fourteen pages this paper evaluates the applicability of the sociological perspectives of theorists Marx, Weber, and Durkheim t...

Alienation and Anomie

In five pages contemporary relevance is considered in a comparative analysis of the alienation concept of Karl Marx and the anomie...

Global Politics and National Security

In two pages this essay examines national security, international politics and contemporary problems with China among the topics d...

Human Nature According to Edmund Burke and Karl Marx

In six pages this paper discusses human nature from the philosophical perspectives of Karl Marx and Edmund Burke in a consideratio...

Discrediting the Predictions of Karl Marx

In five pages this paper examines how historians and contemporary history have combined to discredit the global revolution predict...

The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx

In eight pages this text is considered within the context of contemporary capitalist society. There are no other sources listed....

Max Weber and Karl Marx on Capitalism

have much to do with capitalism but each theorist treats the subject differently. Weber expressed that capitalism did not just ...